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GUEST POST: Memorable Feedback: Lessons from Cognitive Psychology in Selective Attention

As assessment specialists in a large public school district, our jobs involve working with teachers to develop useful classroom assessments and use assessment data to help students learn. Along the way, we’ve found two bodies of literature to be useful during conversations with teachers: cognitive psychology literature related to memory models, and assessment literature related to effective feedback…

GUEST POST: Matching instruction to preferred learning styles does not raise achievement

Why this neuromyth persists and how we, as teachers and researchers might continue to disseminate the message that matching instruction to a preferred learning style will not raise achievement, is the focus of a recent publication, written specifically for this audience.[7] Along with this Guest Blog, I hope it goes some way to giving teachers (and students) an accessible foundation to contextualise this neuromyth and engage in a firm evidence-base in which to dispel it!